Luke Walton

There's a game Stephen Curry plays after practice with his coach, the most accurate three-point shooter in NBA history. It's from the free-throw line, not the arc, because Steve Kerr will turn 50 in a few months and Curry is, um, nowhere near that. Two points are awarded for a swished free throw, one for an ordinary make and none for a miss. The game ends at 10 points, the winner declared with the fewest free throws. At one point this season, as the games started to accrue, Kerr was on a run of one missed free throw out of about 30. He still hadn't won a game. "You get more points for the swish. Steph was just swishing all of them," said Luke Walton, a Golden...

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